𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙮―𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

Chapter 8

"[Y/N]," a hand clasped onto my shoulder taking me out of my fazed state, "you alright?"

I turned to see Diaval there, staring at me. I nodded at him. I wouldn't tell him that every so often, I go into a state of self-doubt and insecurity and a total rock bottom state that erupted because of the lost of my family. Of course no else knows about this, and it never crossed my mind that Diaval would see me in that total awful and unnatural state of mine. Until it eventually did. Like right now.

I should have told Maleficent that part of me years ago. It just never came up in conversation. And I could have told Diaval and asked for him to keep it a secret. But I don't think it would have mattered all that much. He would have told Maleficent if she asked about me and why I act weirdly.

I turned to the raven haired male behind me. "Yeah, I'm fine. Do you want me to get you anything? Any tea? Some coffe? Some kind of food? I can make nut salad if you want." Nut salad is just a bunch of treenuts shoved and mixed up in a bowl like trailmix.

"Do you want to talk about whatever just happened?" he asked me.

I looked away form him, not wanting him to see me in this state. I never want anyone to see me in this state. It meant that I wasn't as strong as I came across. My parents, my brothers, my sisters, my entire family, my home, my culture was destroyed by humans. And they left me. They left me behind. So I could rebuild our culture. Rebuild what was taken from us. I just never knew how to do it.

No ideas on how to make that work. And I still don't know how to make that work. I don't think I'll ever be able to make it work.

"No, no, no. I'm fine." he sent me a look that told me he didn't believe a single word out of my mouth. "If I'm ever not fine, you'll be the first one to know. Just trust me on that, please. But for now, I'm headed to bed. Make sure you don't stay up too late, okay?"